The Message Bible MSG
World English Bible WEB
1 God, don't shut me out; don't give me the silent treatment, O God.
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God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, and don't be still, God.
2 Your enemies are out there whooping it up, the God-haters are living it up;
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For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
3 They're plotting to do your people in, conspiring to rob you of your precious ones.
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They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
4 "Let's wipe this nation from the face of the earth," they say; "scratch Israel's name off the books."
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"Come," they say, "and let us destroy them as a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
5 And now they're putting their heads together, making plans to get rid of you.
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For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
6 Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
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The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia and the Tyrians,
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Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 And now Assyria has joined up, Giving muscle to the gang of Lot.
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Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
9 Do to them what you did to Midian, to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon Brook;
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Do to them as you did to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
10 They came to a bad end at Endor, nothing but dung for the garden.
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Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.
11 Cut down their leaders as you did Oreb and Zeeb, their princes to nothings like Zebah and Zalmunna,
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Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
12 With their empty brags, "We're grabbing it all, grabbing God's gardens for ourselves."
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Who said, "Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands."
13 My God! I've had it with them! Blow them away! Tumbleweeds in the desert waste,
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My God, make them like tumbleweed; Like chaff before the wind.
14 charred sticks in the burned-over ground.
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As the fire that burns the forest, As the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
15 Knock the breath right out of them, so they're gasping
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So pursue them with your tempest, Terrify them with your storm.
16 for breath, gasping, "God."
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Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh.
17 Bring them to the end of their rope, and leave them there dangling, helpless.
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Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
18 Then they'll learn your name: "God," the one and only High God on earth.
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That they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, Are the Most High over all the earth.